Entries from Crook 1998 in Pollex-Online

Crook, W. P., S. Greatheed, et al. (1998). An essay toward a dictionary and grammar of the Lesser-Australian language, according to the dialect used at the Marquesas (1799). Auckland, The Institute of Polynesian Languages and Literatures.

Language Item Description
Marquesas Hógo Great in degree
Marquesas Pá-e A cap or hat
Marquesas Piáia Insane, deranged Phonologically Irregular
Marquesas Paóa A small seine drawn by two persons
Marquesas Nútu pahé Scissors
Marquesas Pa/héko A small hand net to take up fish
Marquesas Paháue A young girl Uncertain Semantic Connection
Marquesas Púwe An instrument made of the tyger shell to scrape off the rind of the breadfruit
Marquesas Páhhou A drum
Marquesas Pa/káiu A spear made of toa wood
Marquesas Páko Black, blue, or green; also the juice of plants, or to daub themselves therewith
Marquesas Pánna A bow; to shoot an arrow
Marquesas Páppa Flat, level
Marquesas Páttu To strike lightly with a stone or instrument; to puncture; to write
Marquesas Pei, peipéi Rotten, bad
Marquesas Pai/émmo Slippery
Marquesas Páihhe An amusement performed with the fingers and fine thread, analogous but incomparably superior, to the childish amusement called making cradles Uncertain
Marquesas Beikáhhi To fan or blow the fire; also the instrument for it
Marquesas Pikkái Peevish, quarrelsome
Marquesas Páiuwe A head ornament of feathers Uncertain Semantic Connection
Marquesas Po A piece of wood for firing
Marquesas Attahi po te One root of te
Marquesas Po-ótu Beautiful, fine (applied to women)
Marquesas Póhho A door; to shut up, to join Uncertain Semantic Connection
Marquesas Pàhówe To convalesce, to be cured; to escape
Marquesas Pohútu A ball to play with
Marquesas Kahóu bogú Common cloth made from the bread fruit tree
Marquesas Hau To sail
Marquesas Bo/neo/néo To dazzle Phonologically Irregular
Marquesas Bo/neo/néo To dazzle Phonologically Irregular
Marquesas Popó Dust, especially from rotten wood
Marquesas Po/póe Paste, or pudding, especially made with the fermented breadfruit
Marquesas Bo/bówe Morning, tomorrow morning
Marquesas Bu A conch; flute; piece of bamboo
Marquesas Buáihhu To spill, or scatter by spilling
Marquesas Hue puó A small gourd from the *rorro* tree of Otaheite (Cucurbita pruriens, Parkinson)
Marquesas Búa Froth Phonologically Irregular
Marquesas Búa/búa Bubbles Phonologically Irregular
Marquesas Buína The ears
Marquesas Buá, buákka A hog, a beast
Marquesas Bua/tí A cockade
Marquesas Buehúa A butterfly
Marquesas Puhwáu The thigh Phonologically Irregular
Marquesas Buhwákke To belch
Marquesas Buhwa/néa, hánéa Sweat Problematic
Marquesas Buka, buna Coral; a file or rasp
Marquesas Bugo Any small globular substance (except beads)
Marquesas Púo vi The ankle Problematic
Marquesas Púo éma The elbow or wrist
Marquesas Puó Species of plantain and breadfruit. A plump fish streaked with yellow and red (THT).